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• MAILS. Altk z ED— t Dublin. Duz-3 Gottenburgli, z Lisbon, 2 Waterford. PRICE Ov STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWIL4E O'CLOCK. Cor.sols THE SUN. SOLLII QUIS DICIAZ FALSUU AUZEAT,? L 0 N D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4,180 g. Mr. PERCEVAL will this day kiss hands, on ,being appointed First Lord of the Treastiry, and Lord HAft• BOWBY, as Secretary of State. Mr. DUNDAS has returned to Dublin, for the purpose of completing the business of his department there.: Wr are happy to hear that Mr. CANNING IS sufficiently recovered to be able to attend His MAJESTY with the Seals of his Office. We believe that there is no truth in the report of Mr. CcioxE's succeeding Mr. HUSKISSON, or of Mr. ARBUTHNOT'S moving from the Treasury to the Ad- miralty. The leading Paper of Opposition recurs again this morning to the silly charge against Ministers, of forcing the colledion of the Taxes, in order to pre clude the necessity of assembling Parliament. Nothing ,can be more absurd than this idea. Truly the Morning Chronicle cannot be ignorant that it is upon the amount of the G7 - ants of Parlia trent, and not of the Revenue, that the necessity of further Parliamentary aid must depend. The efFea of a diminished. Revenue would be, a greater de ficiency to be provided. for in the ensuing yea?; but in- the mean time, the whole ,sum appropriated by Ac of Parliament to the services of the present year, has been or may be raised upon Loans or Exchequer Bills. The daily . .Stock List will shew, that there can .be no difficulty in raising ney upon Exchequer Bills. If the sums required for the Public Service, during the ensuing four months, exceed the amount authorized to be raised or applied - to the several annual services, the VOte of Parlia ment must necessarily be Obtained before another shilling can be issued from the Exchequer, although the produCtions of tberevenue might have accumulated a large unappropriated balance there. But although in this point of view, the state of the revenue, and adequacy of the funds out of which our expences are ultiMately defrayed, is a.;matter of no importance, we are happy to havealgopportunity of stating that the taxes have been unusually productive, and that the arrears have not increased ; so that if the deduc tions of the Morning Chronicler were More. correa, Ills premises would entirely fail him,! It is impossible at the same time to pass over the absurdity of making an aaive colleaion of the Taxes, and especially of the Property Tax, a matter of charge against Ministers; as if when Parliament, upon the motion' of Lord HE SRN PETTY, seconded by Mr. Fox, imposed Ten per Cent upon Income, they intended that the impost should only hang in terrorem over the beads of the peopl ;oras if the Ten additional Inspettors that were appointed in place :of the THREE HUNDRED additional Surveyors no minated by Lord Gaasivict.t, about &he time of the General Eleelion, in 1306, were paid for sitting still at Somerset-house, while the duty of the Collec tors was negle&ed throughout the Country ! We must not be accused of harshness in our opinions upon this subjea ; we contend that a more cruel and oppressive system cannot be devised, than to suffer the payments to fall in arrear, which must be made at one time or : another. If the Taxes be too heavy, let Parliament select such as may be thought right to diminish,. but the punaual colleelion of such As are imposed by law, the imperidus duty of the Officers of the Treasury, for the performance of which they are likely to be called to a striit account. We have only to add, that we do not apprehend that there is any present intention of assembling Par liament before Christmas. We this morning received some more Foreign Pa pers, but they still leave us in doult.t upon the im portant question' of Peace or War between Austria and France. The foll Owing are the only articles of any interest which they contain : BANKS OF THE INN, SEPT. 7.—Ten thousand men are working without interruption on the forti fications of Passau. The forts of NapOleon, Ma xi-' Joseph, Louis, Eckmuhl, Abensberg, &c. which surround the city and terminate at the castle of Haekhaus, are already furnished in a great mea sure, with heavy artillery, There are few examples of a city being surrounded with such bonsiderable for tifications, within the space of four months. Passau is now become one of the most important passage; of the Danube. The 13th Regiment of Bavarian infantry is encamped in the city, in which are also jeveral depots of French cavalry. DitisopEN, SEPT. Majesty hasapproved the plan of forming a . national guard in the capital, 04 this measure_ is atready carrying into effect. The guard will consist only of 4000 men until further orders. The Duke of Abrantes has passed several days here, during which he has appeared to h; much oc cupied. His Excellency has had frequent confer ences with the Minister at War, and has tisited our I fortifications, and all our military establishments.— All Saxony , is comprehended in the territory occu -1 pied by the Bth corps'of the grand army, which his Excellency commands in Chief. He has returned from Baireuth, where his head-quarters remain es -1 tablished. _ _ The division of the Bth corps, which will be sta tioned in Saxony, will be composed of French and Saxon troops. It is estimated at more than 16,000 men. General CARRA ST: 'CYR is the ,superior chief of this division, and at the same time Corn- mandant of Dresden. General THIELMANN, who commands under his orders the Saxon troops, may dispose of 7 or aOOO men of new levies, who are exercised in the different towns of the kingdom, and who will without delay join. their tespedtve corps. Thus, besides the two Saxon divisions which are with the grand army under the command of Gen . RRGNtER, at present.at Presburgh, in Hungary, we shall have on foot a sufficient number of troops to defend Saxony, should there be occasidn" . The ramparts and all the out-works of the city of Dresden are now . repaired, and furnished with .56 pieces of heavy artillery. The works which 'are carrying with the greatest activity, will render this place as strong as it was in the Seven years war. Measures are taken to convey at the instant the war shall break out anew on the banks , of the Danube, the most valuable - effeels, - and among pthers, the_gallery of pidures,- to the fortress of Konigstein, near . Pirna. This fortress is.in the best state of defence; and considerable magazines are established there. We have in . the neighbourhood 'of this city, a camp, composed of : French, Poles and Sa:conS. The troops -destined to - occupy it are successively 'arriving.--(Abeille du Nord, Sept. 22.) BOHEMIA, SEPT. 14.—According td some ac counts, her Majesty the Empress of Austria is much indisposed. .1-lAlkiovEß, SLrpT. J7.—The Royal Westphalian Guards are still' here, an& have as yet received no orders to march; they were yesterday reviewed by the Inspector VON GRUEN,—(Correspon4ent, Sept, SO.) The following is given as a correct statement of the.circurnstance.s which attended the recent negn ciations The overture was made. - :-.by a .Letter from Mr, PERCEVAL, "hid), in substance, stated, that in coo stquence of the Duke of P9RTLAND'S resignation, his MAJtc,TY 'had anthuried Mr. PERCEVAL and Lord LIVERP , OL " to communicate with Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, 1 - 0( the. purpose of fainting an extended and combined Administnition ;" for that purpose Mr. PERCEVAL expressed a hope that the Noble Lords would" come to town ; stating to each respeEtively, that he had by the E.. ING's com mand macic a .imilar conitnunication to the other; and adding, that Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. CAN NING had also resigned. . Lord GRY, who received the letter in Northum berland, immediately acknowledged the receipt of it, btit declined coming to town, stating, that if his MAJESTY 'had had any commands for hits per.- sonally, he would have obeyed instantly, but that as it was proposed to him to communicate with- his MAJESTY'S present' Ministers, for the pu.pose of forming a combined Administration with them, he must at once declare, that such a union' was, with respect to him, under present circumstances, im possible. Lord GREY'S refusal . to come to town 4as been represented as disreskeEtful in itself; we hive been anxidus to ascertain this point, as well as others, and we feel ourselves fully authorized to state, that it was in the manner of it, as would natnrally have been expeaed, perlealy respectful to his MAJESTY, free from every sort of asperity or incivility to Mr. PERCEVAL Or Lord LlVesizroot, ; seeming to have been dictated by a determination 'formed on public arounds only, out to comply with the invitation to communicate with them npoti' such a subjed ; and that he iherefore thought it his duty, out of respect to the !LING, and in idirness to them, not to leave them for, a moment in doubt, .when he had,nd doubt in his own' mind. Lord"GagsviLLE was in Cornwall; he also im mediately acknowfedged the receipt of Mr. PETICE- • VAL'S letter,' and stated, that understanding it as an official significat,ion of his. Majesty's pleasure for his attendance in town, he.-would lose - no time in re pairing thither in obedience to his MAJESTY'S-COM mands,, deleiring until his arrival, all observations on the other matters to which the letter ieferred. We understand that his- Lordship (witit Lady PRENVILL E and Mr. r rHONIAS GrRENVILLE), arrived in town accordingly on Thursday night •; and on Friday morning wrote another Letter to Mr. PER. CEVAL, in which, after noticing his arrival in town the preceding night, he stated, that he thought it his duty to low no time in expressing the necessity un der which he felt of declining the communication proposed, as not likely to be Prodnaive of any public good. The letter •proxeds to state in civil terms, that his opinions were not founded in any feeling of per sonal hostility, nor in a desite of unnecessarily pro longing political differences. That his objea has always, been to conipose, not to inflame, the divisions of the'Empire, which Was now More than ever the duty of every loyal sub jeet ; but that " his accession to the existing Admi nistration" could not contribute to that objet}, and could only be considered as a dercliaion of public principles. " That his objeaions were not Rersonal ; that they applied to the principles of the Government it seg., and to the circumstances which attended its ap pointment." He concluded by requesting that his opinion might be laid before the KiNG, in the most respectful terms, end with every assurance of zeal and duty. To this letter we understand that Mr. PER cEvAL replied, by expressing his And Lord LIVERPOOL'S great concern at his Lordship's having decliiied thei communication, and by stating, that in • making!thq► proposal to his Lordship and Lord GREY, under his MAJESTY'S authority, to communicate with him and Lord LIVERPOOL, " not for the accession of his " Lordship and Lord GREY to the present Admini-, " stration, but for the purpose of forming an ex " tended and- combined Administration," they had not conceived any dereliaion of public principle ne cessary on either side ; and after some acknowledg ment of the civil expresSions in Lord GRENVILLE'S letter, Mr. PERCEVAL concluded by assuring hA Lordship, that in informing the KING that his Lord 7, ship had declined the communication proposed, he would do justice to the dutiful expressions with which the refusal was accompanied, This we believe to be a true narrative of faas. The embargo has been taken off of all neutral ves sels in the ports of France and Holland, upon the ex press condition, however, that none-of them shall enter an English port ; and that if searched . by our cruisers, they shall, if afterwards captured by French Cruisers, be considered lawful prizes to the 'captors, Yesterday the Dispatchesfor India were closed at the East-India House, and sent off to Portsmouth to be put on board the, Georgina packet, Capt. LEIGH. The following •are shred, in recent letters nom Vienna, as the respective positions of the, French and Austrian armies at the beginning or September —The corps of General HILLER has descended the Danube to =west, and forms the kit wing of the army.. The corps of Prince Hortutizot i i.gliN is es- tablished on .the side of Gran ; the other corps .are encaniped on the left bank of the. Danube, either on the side of Comoro, or towards the frontiers of Bohemia and Moravia, where its last link con fleas with the tiist of the army of the Archduke FERDINAND. Gen. GUILAY commands in Croatia.' The French positiops have undergone. bin little change. , The army of Italy occupies the ~rr i to r y of the coast of the Adriatic, Carinthia, Qarniola, Styria, and a part of Hungary ; its head-quarters are at 'Raab, and Marshal NIAorioNALD has his at Gratz ; 11/larshal OUDINOT occupies the banks of the Moravia, which separates Hungary from Mora via. The Duke of DA - vrhic occupies Upper A.us tria, Saltzburgh, and the frontiers of the Tyr01..., Marshal MAssEN4 o , :copi,..ts the western part of Mo ravia, and Marshal DAvoosT the Lac.tern ; the ftaf Varian division is at Lintz. . , ICELAND.--This . large 'lsland, subjeat to. the crown of Denmark, and containing an extent of surface nearly equal to England, vas provisionally taken under the . proteaion of .our Government in July last. Strange as it may appear; the island was in effect reduced by six sea!l,en, belonging:to . a letter of marque from the Tharne4. These dauntless fel, lows took the Governor and the whole Danish gar- • rison prisoners. The native Icelanders are estimat ed at 45,000 hut they are much scattered, have little coMmonication.witifeaeh other, and are miser ably poor. They did not seem to interest them, selves in the question who should be their rulers. — A sloop of 'war, which touched at Iceland, seemed rather to disapprove of' the letter of masque's pro ceedings ; and the_Danish Governor, Count Tramp, is now at Leith, on his way to London, to seek re dress.. In the mean time, the island remains, in some measure, in our hands., It is not of gie - at value, in almost any point of viewi, no grain, even of the hardiest sort, can he raised there. Skins, furs, tallow, oil, .leather-, and -dried fish, are the exports, and these are in no great quantity. • Mr. Hooke'', a Gentleman of fortUne, from Eng land, at the instigation of Sir Joseph Banks, spent the summer in Iceland, in investigating its natural history. He travelled, with . a retinue of Icelanders, : as far up the country as the perennial snow would permit, pitchino his lent wherever interesting ob jects, such as '' the Geyser fountains, 'invited. He, Made a large colleCtion of seecimens.of qOadrupeds, birds, insects. pfants, and minerals (especially plants and inseas, in which departments, it is said, be 'made several discoveries) ; and he often spent many hours in making drawings, •at which he was Wet :lent. He likewise purchased, in different places, many Icelandic books, weapons, dresses, N.-t. at high prices. We regret to have to add, t hat nearly the whole of this active Gentleman's labour; Were lost, by the disastrous circumstance of, the Vessel-in which he• emLarked for London' taking fire, -and being burnt to the v‘ ater's eoge. The crew: and passenger: were. saved by another vessel, which proVid , ntially hove: in sight. Mr. Hooker was *ought to Leith by the Tal(wt sloop of war; whose officers shewed .him the utmost civility and attention :in his misfortunes. The May encountered very had weather on her passage from Iceland, and carried away her tole-mast utf the Faro Isles._ Mr. BissET, the ingenious - artist, of the Museum, Birmingt , am, has struck a Medallion in honour of the ensaing - Jnbilee, which, in point of design and execution, is the most appropriate and elegant thing of the kind we have ever beheld: -Tice folluw - Mg is an imperfea description of it . :— Osy Eas A finely execnted bust of his Miijesty, with the following legend:--King George tire Third, ascended the Throne of the Imperial Realms of Great Britain and Ire land Oclober..ls. A: D. 1760.—Grand National Jubilee, cc ltbrated Udober 26. 1809. REVERSE. — The Guardian. Genius of Britain, represented as Fame, seated in the clouds, and triumphing over Morta lity, displays, with exulting gratitude, a Centenary Circle, one half of which expresses the duration of her Monarch's Reign, from his Accession to the present period, whilst the favouring rays of Heaven illumine her happy countenance, and shed a glory on the Throne : —Her Pride and Care. Respon sive to the inscription at her feet, let every true Briton ex claim, " 4Ong live tire King." It has been erroneously stated in some of the pub lic prints, that Mrs. INCHBALD, whose literary ta lents are so deservedly esteemed, is delivering Lec tures on Oratory, &c. &c. in several provincial towns.—The person who is so employed is the widow. of Mrs. INCHBALD'S late son-in-law, who avails herself of a name to which so much popularity is justly annexed. yesterday the Loan MAYOR, after examining the returns of the -Mealweighers, ordered the price or Bread to be raised half an assize, which wil. take place to-morrow, when the Quartern Loaf Wi,.ea.f.en will b.:. sold for is. sd. and Household is. 34i. NAVAL _N EWS. PLYMOUTH, OC.T. 2. , --Went up the harbour to I)* repaired, his Majesty's ships Captain and Tennant, of 74 guns each. Arrived the ship Surrey, JOHN. KENNIER, Master, from the Bay of Honduras, laden with mahogany and Inwood, bound to London, put in here for con ,, voy ; sailed the Ist of August, in company with a fleet, consisting of to sail, under convoy of his Ma. jesty's ship Joht ; parted with the convoy on the 4th ult. Also arrived his Majesty's ship Thais, from Portsmouth ; the brig General Wellington and Rope, NETHER WOOD, from London. Sailed the Orestes sloop of v.,rar on a cruize 3 his Majesty's ship Swallow, with a convoy to the west ward 3 'and the Jemima, WILLIAMS, from Cork. Arrived his Majesty's ship Hussar from Ports- mouth. POP.TECIOUTII, OCT. 3.—Came in ti.is day the, Lively frigate, with a convoy of about 20 bail of merchant ships, from the Downs. Arrived the Northumberland, Rolinson, Dido, Taylor, IV4riner, Kid, Liberty, Elenor, Commerce, Pitt, from Sun. derland ; the Portsmouth, Burd,ham, Mary, Harvey, and Fox, Pervin, trout London ; and the Branchley, from New— castle. The Persian gun-brig takes convoy to the DOWOg; Came into * the ITarhour this day the Monarch, of 74 guns. Sai►ed his Majesty's ship Dryad to the westward the ,oat schooner, and Clialfervr gun-brig, with a Convoy for Guernsey. " Also his Majesty's ship Statira for Newfoundland; David, Wilkinson, Devonshire, P-yke, Garland, Ash, Ann, Stan,. worth, Charlton, 13teddy, and Hawk, Bristow, for New* foondland ; Elizabeth, Msgdalen, Beatson, and the PrinCe of Wales, \Vest, for 9uebec ; erovideuce, Saxton, and Hopt• for London. 'The Mediterranean convoy it is expected, will $4 ea' ly to-morrow morging, ST. Plaßax's, MART4NIqvg, AUGUST g 70.4 110 superiore schooner, of two long brass 12-pounderof and four carronades, with Ito men 4 and several small privateers are fitting out at Point-ou-Fetrep Quadaloope, DEAL, 00T. 3.—Sailed. his *iesiy's sbip Griffin, to Sheerness ; Loire, and - St. Fiore= fri• 'gates on.a cruize. A small fleet of trartspOft& re." main, with his majesty's ships as per last. The Speedy, Capt. HAR1701:11, has arrived at' W . verpool from'Martinique, from whence she sailed Aug. 27. Spoke in lat. 47. the Swan, fro orto .Itico., The swar: had c..xileriehced very b ad . weather, in which she had lost her mien-mast, three of her guns, and her bulwark foie and aft; ou; 32 days. The Barbadces, • HAAD:Nc, sailed from Martinique ..the 21st August. The Adventure, ; Aspina4 ; and Alexander; -, sailed from the same place the day tolldwing, none of which have ygt reached England. A ship laden with timber from the Eastward, Was captured off Dover, on the 29th ,ult. by 'a French privateer, and carried into Calais, His Majesty's brig Scorpioti has . captured off thc . Saints a s pall privateer of one gun. • The schooner Rlet/ry, from An tiara, was attacked , under - the lee of Guadaloupe, by three row-boat • privateers, which she beat 0i1... A fund has been raised in the ,counties of Inver nes3 and Ross, for rewarding those who destroy the greatest number of foxes, those destruelive animals having increased of late to an alarming degree,..- The following may be depended upon as tin eX• aat account of the proportion's of space allotted to the. audience in the New Theatre .Royal Covent '-Garden, in the Old Theatre, 'and in Drury-lane The boxes are calculated to hold the same numbet of spectators in the.present as in the Old Theatre, but 140 more persons are now provided with seats in -the - lower circles. Six feet six inches is, the averaged depth 'allowed - to the three rows in each bot: - Si . x feet' three inches was allowed in the Old Theatre, and six feet in Drury-lane. In the Old Theatre-20 seats were contained in the pit ; their whole . declivity three feet ; itt the New Theatre - there are also 2Q seats, but their declivity is fOut feet tulle inches. In the two shilling gallery of the (Old Theatre, a - person seated in the back row Imfo as feet fi•orn the stage-dobr ; in the present Theatre he is ; and in Drury-lane he was 100. Itt • the upper gallery of the Old Theatre, the last rota was 93 feet from the stage-door ; the present it is 85 and in Drury lane Theatre it was 104. The upper gallery in the New Theatre will contain about fourscore, and the two shilling gallery about 50 more persons than they did in the old one. Mr. HARRIS, we understand, was advised by m my of hi; friends, after the destruction of Covent- Garden Theatre, to re-build it at the least possible expence ; but he- resolved to leave behind him 3 Olutilorial of his regard for his country, by raising an edifice that should be a national ornament.—ln this design his Partners zealously concurred, and the country can now boast of the first Theatre in the world.—Yet the beaUtiful interior of this magnifi. cent structure has been considerably injured by the wanton mischief of a number of boys, for the ma jority of :those who stood up for public rights could never have disgraced themselves by. such pitiful hos tility. It is said that REYNOLDS had written a charmer piil for CATALANI, If she had' been permitted, tO perform at Covent-Garden Theatre; but though the harmonious part of the public may regret the. loss 'of her musical powers, they will sutler little from not hearing her pionounciation of English.--' The ingenious dramatist too, we conceive, aNtll have no great ditiicalty in adapting the character to aria' ther performer.